Visitors of the Museum of Science and Industry can view the Pioneer Zephyr inside and out. Here is a view of the cab.
Originally this famous unit was apparently an F9, at least in looks but over the years she received all sorts of modifications a the company tested components across the nation. During this perio... (more)
Train time at the Top of the Slide! From left to right, Q21020 heads up track #2 to a crew change at Pine St, A75021 comes down #3 and will make a left turn onto the Abbeville Sub. Meanwhile, Q616... (more)
The classic Great Northern colors borrowed by WGN stand out after a foot of fresh snow.
A "light" engine move with 10 narrow gauge steam locomotives, all working under their own steam.
At dusk, an eastbound Milwaukee Road fruit block waits to depart Avery.
Texas and Pacific 2-10-4 Steam Locomotive #610 sits in the fading East Texas Sun, after another day on the Texas State Railroad. The Texas State Railroad has been running "Polar Express" trains wh... (more)
A sliver of light illuminates an ex-Milwaukee Road GP38-2, fitting considering Milwaukee Road 261 had arrived an hour earlier. BNSF's ore dock complex can be seen in the distance and the thousand ... (more)
The beautiful Izaak Walton Inn outside Glacier National Park near Essex, Montana. The caboose rooms can be seen on the left hillside lit with Christmas lights. The inn was originally built by the ... (more)
A westbound BNSF coal train passes through Barr, Colorado, at dawn on December 2, 2010. As the DPUs pass by, thin clouds are turning pastel shades of yellow, orange and red by the rising winter su... (more)
Q216 passes by on the westbound main past a waiting CSX Q352 on the left, and Wheeling train 610 both trying to get into the yard at Connellsville.
Milwaukee 261 eases into Minnesota on its trip from Minneapolis to Duluth via Superior, Wisconsin.
Three rare locomotives await disposition just south of the Union Pacific DIT Yard in Wilmer Texas. Two former Indiana Railroad SD10's and a Montana Rail Link SD19-1. There is a two state railroad... (more)
261 steams past the ore docks in Duluth on its way towards the Lake Superior Railroad Museum.
C&O 2-8-4 # 2732 sits stuffed and mounted in Richmond Va
